Over time of accumulating gold on this game, I have always had the thought in my mind that there should be a way of showing off to the rest of the server just how rich you (and your crew) are. Perhaps over certain milestones of gold collection I think your ships deck should slowly gain (COSMETIC ONLY) piles of gold. However, depending on the responses to this thread it could also be total gold you and your crew members possess at the time.
I know this doesn't affect gameplay in anyway I just figured it would be pretty neat to pull up to other pirates ships and see their decks glistening in huge sporadic piles of gold on the decks of their ship.
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